American use of depleted uranium and effects on the Iraqi civil population

[Teutone]

Since 2001, medical personnel working for the Iraqi state health service controlled by Saddam Hussein at the Basra hospital in southern Iraq have reported a sharp increase in the incidence of child leukemia and genetic malformation among babies born in the decade following the Gulf War. Iraqi doctors attributed these malformations to possible long-term effects of DU, an opinion that was echoed by several newspapers.

In 2004, Iraq had the highest mortality rate due to leukemia of any country. In 2003, the Royal Society called for Western militaries to disclose where and how much DU they had used in Iraq so that rigorous, and hopefully conclusive, studies could be undertaken out in affected areas.The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) likewise urged that an epidemiological study be made in the Basra region, as asked for by Iraqi doctors, but no peer-reviewed study has yet been undertaken in Basra.

A medical survey, "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009" published in July 2010, states that the "...increases in cancer and birth defects...are alarmingly high" and that infant mortality 2009/2010 has reached 13.6%. The group compares the dramatic increase, five years after wartime exposure in 2004, with the lymphoma that Italian peacekeepers developed after the Balkan wars and the increased cancer risk in certain parts of Sweden because of the Chernobyl fallout. The origin and time of introduction of the carcinogenic agent causing the genetic stress the group will address in a separate report. The report mentions depleted uranium as one "potentially relevant exposure" but makes no conclusions on the source.

Four studies in the second half of 2012—one of which described the people of Fallujah as having "the highest rate of genetic damage in any population ever studied"—renewed calls for the US and UK to investigate the possible links between their military assault on the city in 2004 and the explosion in deformities, cancers, and other serious health problems.Despite the known use of depleted uranium by allied forces, no depleted uranium has been found in soil samples taken from Fallujah.

A incredible disgusting war crime that receives little to no coverage in western media.

May god bless the families and one time they get their justice.

[Arūnas]

same shit ===>>> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01034-8

In August 1956, an above-ground test at the Polygon caused more than 600 residents in the industrial city of Ust-Kamenogorsk, approximately 400 kilometres east of the test site, to be rushed to the hospital with radiation sickness. There are no records of how many people in the city died as a result.

[Teutone]

same shit ===>>> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01034-8

No this is dated back to 1956 by nation that doesnt exists anymore and it was done on its own territory and we talk about invasion based war crimes that happend in the early and mid 2000s here and still affect civilians.

Also do 2 wrongs make a right?

I dont think so.

[Arūnas]

same shit ===>>> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01034-8

In August 1956, an above-ground test at the Polygon caused more than 600 residents in the industrial city of Ust-Kamenogorsk, approximately 400 kilometres east of the test site, to be rushed to the hospital with radiation sickness. There are no records of how many people in the city died as a result.

[Teutone]

The Balkans

Sites in Kosovo and southern Central Serbia where NATO aviation used depleted uranium during the 1999 Kosovo War.
In 2001, the World Health Organization reported that data from Kosovo was inconclusive and called for further studies.That same year, governments of several European countries, particularly Italy, reported an increase in illnesses and developments of cancers among veterans that served in Balkan peacekeeping missions.

A 2003 study by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina stated that low levels of contaminant were found in drinking water and air particulate at DU penetrator impact points. The levels were stated as not a cause for alarm. Yet, Pekka Haavisto, chairman of the UNEP DU projects stated, "The findings of this study stress again the importance of appropriate clean-up and civil protection measures in a post-conflict situation."

A team of Italian scientists from the University of Siena reported in 2005 that, although DU was "clearly" added to the soil in the study area, "the phenomenon was very limited spatially and the total uranium concentrations fell within the natural range of the element in soils. Moreover, the absolute uranium concentrations indicate that there was no contamination of the earthworm species studied."

In 2018, Serbia set up a commission of inquiry into the consequences of the use of depleted uranium during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in southern Serbia and its link to the rise of diseases and tumors among citizens, particularly in young children born after 1999. NATO has repeatedly claimed that depleted uranium found in the ammunition used in the 1999 bombardments cannot be linked to adverse health effects.

[Arūnas]

Putin: Soviet collapse a 'genuine tragedy' https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7632057

[Teutone]

Putin: Soviet collapse a 'genuine tragedy' https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7632057

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladimir Putin


Why you make this about Russia anyway?

If I show you a case of a German serial rapist, is your first reply to justify that rape by naming me a Russian serial rapist?

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

But, you know, weapons of mass destruction, and, like genocide and stuff...

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Arūnas is Donny.

[barnumandbailey]

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladimir Putin


Why you make this about Russia anyway?

If I show you a case of a German serial rapist, is your first reply to justify that rape by naming me a Russian serial rapist?

He's Finnish.